Thursday, May 24, 2012

If we want to learn to “thank” aright we must “think” about the miracle that is happening to us. For thinking and thanking belong together. Both are worship and they cannot be separated. Both are an exercise which we must perform every day.

Helmut Thielicke

This from The Waiting Father, by Helmut Thielicke, 1959, p. 35. The Waiting Father is one of a series of publications by Thielicke of his sermons.